and many more. As you can see, they take the form of ;
"name of item"
"name of item"no; or
["name of item"sh / "name of item"shno, whenever appropriate].

I would like to tell STATA to look at the names of variables and execute;
tabstat `var', s(mean n max min med) c(s)
only for the set of variables that contains the same prefix, and loop
over the
next set of variables, and then next, and so on.

I tried to embed ifcmd or subinstr command in the loop but haven't been
able
to pull it off. I feel like I'm missing out something very basic.
Thanks in advance for your help.
Yusuke